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Lars77

(3,032 posts)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 06:48 AM Jul 2012

'Madrid miner crackdown will fuel Spanish protests'



There have been clashes in Madrid as police cracked down on anti-austerity demonstrators marching across the city. Security forces fired rubber bullets at thousands of people, who walked out to support coal miners, angry at the loss of industry subsidies. That's as the Prime Minister announced new cuts and tax hikes to save 65 billion Euros in return for an EU bank bailout. Sociologist Carlos Delclos says the government is losing its legitimacy.

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I usually don't post stuff from RT, but no-one else seems to be covering this at all.
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